"The Solar Family" is an 11-minute educational film produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films in 1936. It presents the evolution of the solar system through the lens of the planetesimal hypothesis, a ...

Most of our knowledge about the Solar System’s formation and evolution comes from the study of extraterrestrial rock samples called chondritic meteorites. These rocks, which are fragments of asteroids ...

Earth gazed into the cosmos, wondering if she would ever get a new planetary neighbor. To her astonishment, one day... it happened. This video explores the breathtaking and chaotic consequences of a ...

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A striking new image of the strange interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has revealed it is growing a tail, offering more proof that it is a comet visiting our Solar System. At such a critical moment in US ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star. NASA and the European Space Agency released ...